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S. 447

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Black Hills Cemetery Act
About This Bill
Introduced
Latest Action · June 27, 2013
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 117.
Congress
113th (2013–2015)
Introduced
March 5, 2013
Sponsor
Sen. John ThuneR
Cosponsors (1)
1D 0R
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(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.) Black Hills Cemetery Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to convey, to the local communities in South Dakota that are currently managing specified community cemeteries, all interest of the United States in: (1) the parcels of National Forest System land that contain the cemeteries, and (2) up to an additional two acres adjoining each cemetery to ensure that such conveyances include unmarked gravesites and allow for the expansion of those cemeteries. Subjects each such conveyance to the conditions that: (1) the recipient accept the conveyed real property as is, (2) the conveyed lands to continue to be used in the same manner and for the same purposes as they were immediately before conveyance, and (3) the recipients bear the cost of the survey for their particular parcels.

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